Articles by Scott Varnham

In his spare time, Scott writes for Kasterborous, his personal blog at WordPress and the revived Starburst Magazine. He’s also on Twitter (as @Scott_V_Writer) where he tries to be interesting and verbose in 140 characters.

For those not familiar with auteur theory, the idea is that what you see on screen is the director’s vision and that the director is responsible for everything in the film or television and that input from others is minimal. The theory is debated, to say the least. What does this have to do with…

Remember those Forbidden Planet exclusive iPhone cases we covered a month or two ago? Well, the K can’t cover things if we don’t know about them, which is why I’m grateful that one of my closest friends sent me a link to Society 6’s Doctor Who section. What is Society 6, you ask? It may…

Regular listeners to the Kasterborous PodKast (with a “K” – the player is on the right) will know that Tom MacRae, writer of such Doctor Who classics as Rise of the Cybermen/The Age Of Steel and The Girl Who Waited, was interviewed by Our Benevolent Overlord on the most recent edition. On the off-chance that…

Some of you may have noticed that a film starring Matt Smith and Eva Green is being released on Monday. The film is called Clone and is the “long-awaited” Womb. The rebranding makes sense, as while Clone gives away the plot of the film a bit, Womb is just a terrible title that is not even…

Lord knows the runners of Doctor Who have discovered that it’s better to drip feed information to fans with the aim of keeping them excited than telling them everything all at once. So it probably won’t surprise you that Steven Moffat has allowed a tiny bit of information to leak about certain events in Series…

As stated in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine (out today), when the producers of Doctor Who said that all of the Daleks are coming back, they meant all of them. Among them is the awesomest Dalek ever, the Special Weapons Dalek. He has been seen precisely once (in 1988’s Remembrance Of The Daleks)….

Fans of aesthetics in their internet browsing will be pleased to know that audio maestros Big Finish have updated their website from their previous design which was, in this writer’s opinion, a bit of a mess. The new site is sleek, elegant and has nice big type for the hard of sight. It sorts everything…